On one side are wide swathes of the country that this past midterm elected reformers intent on slashing spending and reviving growth. On the other are the holdout pockets—Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut—drifting further into the abyss of tax and spend. The chasm has huge implications, not just for local and regional politics but for Washington.

For instance (quoting from the article),

Wisconsin is working to enact the total elimination of corporate income taxes for two years for firms that migrate

In Ohio, John Kasich’s Republican legislature has already introduced legislation to kill the state death tax

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s first order of business will be to end the 22% surcharge on his state’s job-killing business tax

Nevada’s Brian Sandoval has vowed to kill the tax hikes passed by Democrats in 2009

In Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, you name it, new Republican governors have made top priorities of cutting or eliminating state corporate income taxes